# Custom MPD redirect

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/custom-mpd-redirect/153
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [August 14, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/custom-mpd-redirect/153 "2015-08-14T08:59:04Z")
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### Author: ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/custom-mpd-redirect/153/1 "2015-08-14T08:59:04Z")

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Already posted as comment on the MPEG-DASH page. No feedback so trying here:

Is it possible, or can it be made possible, to force the Wowza IP address (instead of domain) in the mpd manifest Location?

Our problem:

Clients are directed to the liverepeater-edge server pool through DNS round robin. The client’s live stream freezes, when a browser tries to access a different edge after a DNS refresh.

Player sends initial request to server A [streampool.com/mystream](http://streampool.com/mystream) and receives a mpd with Location [streampool.com/mystream\_with\_session](http://streampool.com/mystream_with_session)

Minutes later the browser resolves DNS for [streampool.com](http://streampool.com) again, and lands on a different server, where the session does not exist, and stream stops

I guess this would be solved if the mpd Location response contained an IP address instead of domain.

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